FDA NEWS

Caraco gets FDA warning letter on quality control - Forbes
Generic drugmaker Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. said Monday it received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration over quality-control issues. The letter was issued as a follow-up to an FDA inspection of the company's Detroit
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Cathy Betz - Philadelphia Inquirer
Cathy Betz, vice president of government affairs for Wolters Kluwer Health, the Conshohocken-based arm of the global health and life-sciences information company, expects big changes - eventually - for the country and regions such as Philadelphia
Source: www.philly.com

Osmetech Plc ('Osmetech' or the 'Company') Clinical Trials Commence - PR Inside
- Osmetech plc (LSE:OMH), the international molecular diagnostics company announces that it has now commenced clinical trials for an extended warfarin sensitivity test. Osmetech obtained clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in
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Condoms Trump Abstinence in Obama Global AIDS Policy, Aide Says - Bloomberg
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will reverse U.S. family planning and AIDS prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education, a public-health adviser said. Public health policies
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Celgene Cellular Therapeutics Receives FDA Clearance for First - MSN MoneyCentral
Celgene Cellular Therapeutics (CCT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Celgene Corporation CELG , today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the company ’ s investigational new drug application to initiate a clinical trial
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Gene-altered animals and food safety - Boston Globe
PERHAPS you're still getting used to the idea that some of the meat, milk, and cheese you are eating may come from cloned cows or their offspring, a controversial culinary advance that the Food and Drug Administration green-lighted in January after
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CNSystems Medizintechnik AG Receives FDA Approval for CNAP(TM) Monitor - Earthtimes
GRAZ, Austria - (Business Wire) CNSystems Medizintechnik AG, a medical device company marketing CNAP ™ , today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the 510(k) notification for CNSystem's CNAP ™ Monitor 500, permitting
Source: www.earthtimes.org

Today's Globe: headphones and heart devices, vitamins and heart - Boston Globe
If you have a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator, don't keep your iPod earbuds in your shirt pocket or draped around your neck - even when they're disconnected. Vitamins C and E, pills taken by millions of Americans, do nothing to prevent heart
Source: www.boston.com